In the era of globalization, there is not much choice for the government of Brunei but to face and keep up with the challenges and fast-paced changes whether they like it or not especially the civil service sector. Fulfilling the public needs is one of the requirements the government of Brunei has to meet in order to remain in line with the country’s policies and development objectives. Thus, to offer comfort and serenity for the nation’s citizens and people to live in implies the civil service must be systematic, highly responsive and competitive. A particular focus of research has been how governance and accountability have become a narrow focus in the lights of public sector context (Humphrey et al., 1993; Mulgan, 2000; Dubnick, 2005; Yapa, …show more content…
Governance, basically, involves having a clear direction and coordination of various actors (Kooiman, 2003; Yapa, 2014). It is their responsibility to make sure they serve in the interest of the public in the best way possible and to produce positive outcomes for the public service consumers. This should provide these governors a sense of obligation in pursuit of one of the major aims of the government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam that is to develop a government that is effective and efficient in delivering services to its customers. These multiple actors have been heavily involved in public sector organizations and have played a vital role in defining the requirements for new governance and accountability mechanisms (Christensen and Laegreid, 2007; Yapa, …show more content…
Meanwhile, he defined accountability as procedures demanding government officials and those who wish to influence them to follow a set of defined and established rules of acceptable processes and outcomes and to acknowledge and demonstrate that they have followed those procedures. Any mechanisms of transparency and accountability, be it either formal or informal, should be able to encourage government officials to act in the interest of the public. When we talk about transparency and accountability, the first thing that would typically cross the minds of people is a public access to information and the transparency of the activities carried out by the government. Because a hindered access to records of governance and other relevant information that should be made available to public would give the public a sense of doubt that there might be a possibility of scarce resources getting mismanaged or misused. In other words, transparency and accountability are considered two critical elements in the public
Examination of the Purpose, Roles and Responsibilities of a Range of Public Services The roles and responsibility of the Police force This is a mission statement made by the Metropolitan Police. “We would provide a high quality Police service in the city of London and work with the community, other organisations and agencies, to promote a safe peaceful and crime free environment” There are many roles that a police officer has. Here is a quote, which has been made by the greater Manchester police about roles and responsibilities of the police force. “Our role is to uphold the law fairly and firmly by preventing crime, brining law breakers to justice and keeping the peace, protecting, helping and reassuring the community.
Accountability….What does it mean? Well this past month e lost two soldiers who are a part of our unit and voice of our unit pass away. Accountability is important and should not be taken lightly… A soldier lost his life a couple weeks ago, due to lack of accountability, and it hurt a lot of people. For so many reasons accountability is important, for example. Knowing where your soldiers are at all times helps to know what they’re doing, and what their interest are doing so. In case something happens and someone needs t know where a soldier is accountability comes into play. Army Regulation 600-20 IAW Discipline. Why is discipline so important? Because to be accounted for is a part of disciplinary actions.
Overall, the prospects of accountability-based reforms taking hold and becoming institutionalized are fairly good. Based on the Fernandez and Rainey framework for organizational change we see that the two steps chosen to assess accountability-based reforms in the OPD show that reforms have internal support because it improves collaboration between top managers and lower level officers by creating more manageable districts that have one go-to person that has all the responsibility. The two accountability-related tasks I chose to examine also show signs that the requirements by the court-ordered monitor show either partial or full compliancy, pointing to an upward trajectory of the institutionalization of accountability-based reforms.
The general meaning of transparency implies openness, or see-through, which is then applied to socio-politics with regards to accessing information and governmental records to better enable knowledge sharing and accountability. Finel and Lord (1999) define transparency as legal, political, and institutional structures that make internal information about a government and society available to actors both inside and outside of domestic political systems. According to Ann Florini (1998; 2002; 2008), transparency is the opposite of secrecy and a choice encouraged by changing attitudes about what constitutes appropriate behavior. Gupta (2008) and Mason (2008) further highlight the complex, contested, and important nature of transparency as a tool
The main aim of public service is to deliver services that are of need to its people. How fast a public manager can address its people’s problem and concerns indicates its effectiveness. Responsiveness of the manager develops trust between him, the government, and the people. According to (Rainey, p106) bureaucratic responsiveness implies two things; responsiveness to the people’s wishes or responsiveness to the interest of the government.
Ministerial Accountability Under the UK Constitution “The prerogative has allowed powers to move from Monarch to Ministers without Parliament having a say in how they are exercised. This should no longer be acceptable to Parliament or the people.” Discuss whether ministerial accountability is adequately addressed under the UK constitution The Royal Prerogative has allowed a wide array of discretionary powers to be delegated from the Monarch to ministers without a need to seek parliamentary approval. This system is both unjust and undemocratic as it leaves a number of largely unchecked powers in the hands of a privileged few. These powers, including the ability to ratify treaties, declare war, regulate the civil service and appoint ministers, have a profound effect on the lives of the citizens of the United Kingdom and therefore it is necessary for them to be regulated by Parliament, the democratically elected body of the British people.
The focus is on the issues of police accountability in modern society, and in particular why their accountability is more important than other professions. This is not surprising considering the amount of power and discretion police officers have, and the level of trust that the public holds with these civil servants. Police officers accountability is the biggest thing in their profession which has been an issue of concern they have to be accountable to the police department who want the officer to be an effective and responsible person, to people in the community who have best expectation from an officer and being accountable to themselves for their acts. An ordinary citizen of a country cannot obtain the powers that police officer’s have.
Public Administration involves the development, implementation and management of policies for the attainment of set goals and objectives that will be to the benefit of the general public. Since Public Administration involves taking decisions that affect the use of public resources there is often the question of how to utilize public resources for maximum public good. The National Association of Public Administration has identified four pillars of public administration: economy, efficiency, effectiveness and social equity. These pillars are equally important in the practice of public administration and to its success. This paper seeks to explain the role of each of the pillars in the practice of public administration.
This essay discusses the radical transformation of the principles and foundations of public administration from traditional to New Public Management. Firstly the essay will attempt to define the key terms of traditional public administration and the doctrine of New Public Management. Rabin J. (2003) explains that New Public Management embodies “a process in public administration that uses information and experiences obtained in business management and other disciplines to improve efficiency, usefulness and general operation of public services in contemporary bureaucracies.“Traditional Public Administration progresses from governmental contributions, with services perceived by the bureaucracy.
Public Managers have to participate in the policy making process. Previously, according to scholars, “policy process” was considered “decision making” (Wu, Ramesh, Howlett, & Fritzen, 2010). Under such pretense, public managers considered their role merely with policy implementation. However the recent theories that define public policy, have demarcated public policy as an activity that involves a broad range of activities ranging from defining problems, ensuring the defined problems to make it to agenda, developing alternative solutions of addressing these issues, implementing the results and evaluating the outcomes.
On a large scale, governance describes methods a governing body uses to ensure its citizens follow established protocol. At the macro level, there is a loosely coupled organizations structure that supervises and maintains respons...
Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, K. M. (2012). New Public Management: Emergence and Principles. BUP JOURNAL , 1.
Accountability is one of the major characterstic of good governance. Lack of accountability has been creating tension since independence. Improper usage of funds, increasing rate of inflation, Pakistan is also under debt trap. It is all happening due to absence of accountability. Corruption can easily be removed with proper channel of accountability. Check and balance is very essential for the maintenance of funds
Over time, how have members of the field of public administration examined the subject of policy and administration (has the dichotomy changed)?
The study of public administration only continued to grow over the course of the next two decades. As the study of public administration expanded, so did the development of s...